Drawings of Rajasthan

This chapter explains why the shift from state developmentalism to neoliberalism in India transformed the Rajasthan state government into a land broker state. During the developmen...

Abstract Several years ago in Rajasthan, an eighteen-year-old woman was burned on her husband’s funeral pyre and thus became sati. Before ascending the pyre, she was...

This chapter examines documentary culture in eighteenth-century Rajasthan through an exploration of the legal archive—the Sanad Parwana Bahis—of the kingdom of Jodhpur. More partic...